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General Introduction

• By Way of a Proposition: Way Chee Dimock, "Literature for the Planet", PMLA 116 (1) 2001: 173-188
• Additional reading TBA

Of Mice and Men: Transitioning and Spying For World Peace

• Ha Jin,  A Map of Betrayal
• Arlif Dirlik, "."
• Ha Jin, , Paris Review
• Ha, Jin. "Exiled to English." In Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader, edited by Shu-mei Shih, Chien-hsin Tsai and Brian Bernards, 117-124. New York: Columbia UP, 2013.
• Michael Wutz , "," Weber, 31. vol. 2, Spring/Summer 2015, 4-16.
• Uighurs in China: " (Reuters)

             Of topical interest:

• Fae Myenne Ng, "" (Harpers, 22 Jan 2019)
• / Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
   
• Betrayal I _______________________________________       Betrayal II ______________________________________

Literature, Exile, and the Reach of the Big Brother

• Ha Jin, The Boat Rocker
• (Council on Foreign Relations)
• (6/18)
   
• Boat Rocker I _______________________________________      Boat Rocker II _______________________________________
• 
  Of topical interest
  • Kevin Kwan, (8/18), (NPR)

Caught Between Two Worlds

• Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
• including interviews and Readers' Guide
• Additional readings on CAL PAL TBA
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• The Children of 1965: Allegory, Postmodernism, and Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake
  
  
  Of topical interest
• Michael Wutz, "Gogol + Nikil = Nikon? — Power, Place, and Photography in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake."
  The Place of Photography", Ed. Julia Faist and Kerstin Schmidt, Leiden: Brill (2019)
• Mira Nair, The Namesake (2007, film screening, time permitting)
   
• Namesake I _____________________________________      Namesake II ______________________________________

Radicalism Abroad & Nation Building: Naxalism, Ecology, and the Burden of Migration

• Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland
• (Dipesh Chakrabarty, "The Climate of History: Four Theses," "New Literary History" 35, 2 (2009): 197-222.)
• "Postcolonial Studies and the Challenge of Climate Change, "New Literary History" 43, 1 (2012): 1-18.
• Reviews of , , ,
• The Lowland – Focus Questions
   
• Lowland I ______________________________________        Lowland II _______________________________________
   
• Of topical interest:
  • Teju Cole, NYT, 6 Feb 2019
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  • Michael Wutz, "The Archaeology of the Colonial - Un-Earthing JL's Unaccustomed Earth," SAF 42.2 (2015)
  •  (3/19)

Counselor Troi in the Maghreb: Literature, Genetics, and the Need for Empathy

• Richard Powers, Generosity and select essays/interviews in CALPAL
• ,   
• Marco Roth, " n+1, 8, Fall 2009
• James Wood, ," The New Yorker, 5 Oct 2009
• Joseph Carroll, "Biology and Poststructuralism" (to be put online)
   
• Generosity I __________________________________       Generosity II _________________________________

• Of topical interest:
  • (3/19)
  • C.P. Snow, "The Two Cultures" (1959)
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The Endgame for Ents, or, Writing Over the Top: An Arboreal Epic for Our Time

• Richard Powers, The Overstory
• Richard Powers in conversation with Steve Paulson
• Eadweard Muybridge,
• Suzanne Simard, - TED talk (June 2016)
• , (NBC, Sept. 2008)
• Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Cary Fowler, , TED talk. July 2009)
• Amitav Ghosh, (LSE book review)
• RP, (NYT, 3/19)
• 
   
• The Overstory I __________________________________        The Overstory __________________________________
•  
• Of topical interest
  - (1/19)
  - Alan Weisman,  (2007),
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  - Bartolomaus Traubneck:  <=> Rainer Maria Rilke, (1919)
  - "a religious conversion": , The Atlantic, 16 April 2019

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